Marc Barrowclift (via Dave Mark): There’s new and exciting developments every year in the realm of iOS third-party music players, and 2021 was no exception. While 2019 enjoyed an explosion of new players like Power Player and Albums that through tim…
Lees meerBruce Schneier: Researchers have figured how how to intercept and fake an iPhone reboot[…] […] I see this as another manifestation of the security problems that stem from all controls becoming software controls. Back when the physical buttons actual…
Lees meerJosé Adorno (PDF): In the US, PUBG’s developer sued the maker of another popular battle royale game, Free Fire. Not only that but Krafton has also named Apple and Google in the lawsuit, alleging that Apple and Google have refused to stop selling rip…
Lees meerSteve Barnegren (tweet): It was difficult to gracefully integrate new Swift code into existing Objective-C classes and systems. A year down the line we still had a mostly Objective-C code base. Almost anything of any real importance was still in Obj…
Lees meerJesse Squires: Periodically, the order of folders in App Library changes. Why?! It is incredibly disorienting. I’m not sure if this is a bug or a “feature” where recently-used or most-used categories move toward the top? The order of category folder…
Lees meerChris Welch: Uber has quietly shut down its Apple Watch app, with the software now showing a message that instructs people to “please switch to the Uber mobile app.” The company is “no longer supporting the Apple Watch app,” according to the text, w…
Lees meerChance Miller (tweet): Earlier today, a report indicated that some European carriers were blocking the Private Relay feature introduced by Apple with iOS 15. This feature is designed to give users an additional layer of privacy by ensuring that no o…
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut, in 2010: If you imagine a world where the sum of all things you can do with a computer is exactly matched, and locked down for all time with what you can do inside a browser, then the arguments for the web are persuasive. Why write fo…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Apple’s App Store is lousy with Wordle rip-offs. I mean not just the concept — there’s a long history of “guess the word” games, including a defunct game show called “Lingo” that was clearly an inspiration for Wordle — but literally the…
Lees meerMoxie Marlinspike (Hacker News): web3 is a somewhat ambiguous term, which makes it difficult to rigorously evaluate what the ambitions for web3 should be, but the general thesis seems to be that web1 was decentralized, web2 centralized everything in…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Kosta Eleftheriou has found another apparently multi-million-dollar-grossing app that’s been on the App Store for over three years: a shitty music “volume boosting” music player named AmpMe that costs $10 per week after the three-day tr…
Lees meerJames Vincent (via Nilay Patel): Google has accused Apple of benefiting from bullying as part of a deliberate strategy to make Android users into second-class citizens on the iPhone-maker’s iMessage service.Apple’s messaging service includes a numbe…
Lees meerJulio Ojeda-Zapata: [There] are good reasons that the $199 Beats Fit Pro, not the $179 AirPods, may be your next Apple earbuds.For an up-to-date comprehensive overview of the Apple earbud landscape, consult a mega-chart I created to compare features…
Lees meerJohn Gordon: Photos said it could not open the Aperture library. It did not say why. I then regenerated full sized previews per Apple’s directions and I tried again. This time the import proceeded. I could see the Version of my original photo but no…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: The only common factor is that, when trying to back up folders containing seriously large numbers of very small files, some of which may be hard links, the rate of copying falls to ridiculously low numbers. […] Looking back before 10.…
Lees meerJeff Atwood: From here, if you were lucky, you might have a cassette tape drive. If you knew the right commands, you could type them in to load programs from cassette tape. But that was an expensive add-on option with early personal computers. For m…
Lees meerNick Heer (in 2020): Avast’s web browser extensions were caught collecting every website users were visiting for sale by its Jumpshot subsidiary. Those extensions were pulled and the company insisted that the information had no personal information …
Lees meerFlorian Köhler (via Ken Harris): For whatever reason, a few months later, in September 2002, a MySQL developer decided to push a one-byte commit UTF8 now works with up to 3 byte sequences only to the repository and change the allowed bytes from six …
Lees meerAshley Carman: All the industry’s major players have, over the past two years, acquired companies focused on one feature: inserting ads into podcasts. […] The industry is sprinting toward this programmatic advertising future. However, there are some…
Lees meerBrian Krebs (Hacker News): Norton 360, one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. Norton’s parent firm says the cloud-based service that activates the pr…
Lees meerPhilip Elmer-DeWitt, quoting Bernstein (via Dave Mark, Hacker News): We now forecast that Google’s payments to Apple might be nearly $15B in FY 21, contribute an amazing ~850 bps to Services growth YoY, and amount to ~9% of company gross profits. [……
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